The blog of Richard Thompson, caricaturist, creator of "Cul de Sac," and winner of the 2011 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Pellonreuna

Behold the Finnish version. It will soon be translated consecutively into Icelandic, Urdu, Hobbitese, Klingon, a private language spoken by a set of poorly-socialized identical twins living in Kansas, then back into English.

I believe Finns are more adventurous concerning art (although I shouldn't judge the Danes by just one review - they are really nice people).

Last time I looked (alas 20 years ago) they had suburbs in Helsinki; I think they have some laws, though: there have to be that many trees between apartment buildings, and there has to be a 1:4 ratio of saunas to people (this one I am not so sure of; I may have made it up, but it is pretty close to reality).

I hope you will be able to go to a book signing in Finland (leave your trunks at home)!